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Fake Passports : Ideal Getaway Vehicles for Dons Vishad M., Mumbai. The one object that comes in most handy for illegal travel of underworld dons across the world is a fake passport. What is amazing to note is that the dons can easily assume a new identity for travel purposes at a cost as low as Rs.500. In the 'Bhai world', obtaining a new passport is just a wish away. The dons can manage to get a passport in India and abroad with same technique and within no time at all. Acknowledging the importance of having multiple identities so that their intra-country travel is not hampered, the dons normally own multiple passports. The reigning king of the underworld, Dawood Ibrahim, has 20 passports with him. Abu Salem, currently in jail, is a proud owner of 12 passports. Chhota Shakeel has 6 passports to his credit while Chhota Rajan has 8 and Aftab Ansari two. 'Getting a fake passport is easy. You have to obtain fake a School Leaving Certificate (LC), Driving License, Ration Card, Voter I-card, and Birth, Marriage or Domicile Certificate. These fake certificates are easily available for Rs.200 to Rs.500 in India. The applicant also has to undergo the process of Police Verification to get a legitimate Passport, but anyone can avoid the long wait by paying Rs.200 to Rs.500 to a Constable or Havaldar as speed money. In this way, one can be assured to have a passport within a week’s time.' A senior CBI Officer wonders aloud, 'This practice can be stopped with a help of a new technology and little bit of honesty on the part of the authorities. Can't we do this much?' As per CBI & Mumbai Police records, more than 68 hardcore criminals have escaped from India using fake passports. The list contains names of the who’s who of Mumbai underworld, and includes Dawood Ibrahim, Vicky Malhotra, Vicky Goswamy, Babloo Shrivastava, Aftab Ansari, Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Meman, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, Archana Sharma, Monica Bedi, Bunty Pandey, Ejaj Lakdawala, Guru Satam, Hemant Pujari, Mohammad Dosa, etc.
Other D-gang members who are based in Pakistan and were issued fake passports from India as well as Pakistan are Ishaq Atta Hussain aka Ali Moosa, Sagir Sabir Ali Shaikh, Memon Ayub, Memon Ibrahim aka Tiger aka Mushtaq aka Sikander, Pathan Izaz and Shaikh Shakeel aka Chhota Shakeel. These hardcore criminals escaped from India in 1993 using fake passports issued from Mumbai and other parts of India. During President Musharraf's Agra visit on July 14-15 in 2000, Dawood travelled from Karachi to Singapore under the name of Mohammed Anis on a fake Pakistani passport (H-123259). Dawood also holds a Pak passport (G-866537) issued from Rawalpindi in name of 'Sheikh Dawood Hassan'. Dawood's fake passport expert, Noor Baksh alias Abdulla, was nabbed by the Special Task Force in Lucknow October 6, 2000. Noor had been a part of D-gang for at least six years before that. He was instrumental in the 'Bangkok cleaning up operation' against rival don Chhota Rajan. The assigned killers, Zafar, Aziz, Mansoor and Kayoom were arrested by Thai Police, but Noor escaped to Karachi. From there he went to Kathmandu and arrived in India in last week of September 2000 to arrange fake passports for D-company members. When arrested, Noor Baksh, a resident of Baluchistan, was carrying a fake Indian passport and had gone to Lucknow to obtain another one. He had got a fake passport issued in the name of 'Nassir Hussain' in 1999. Noor, the son of a retired Pakistani police officer and is familiar with the use of guns since his early age, was invited by some of his women friends to India in 1984 and stayed for a few months in Bangalore and Mumbai. In Karachi, he came in contact with Chhota Shakeel and joined the D-Company. He used to make fake passports and visas for D-company members in Asian countries. Dubai Police caught him red-handed arranging a fake passport for a Dawood gangster and subsequently deported him to Pakistan. The gangsters obtained their fake passports from various states in India. Abu Salem acquired 2 passports from Bhopal in the name of Danish Beg and Usmaan Akhtar, 1 from Lucknow in the name of Abdul Kayyum Ansari, 1 from Mumbai and two from Hyderabad out of which 1 was under the name of Ramil Kamil Malik. He also got a few passports made from abroad, 1 each from Mexico, Nepal and Portugal. The one made from Portugal was in name of Asilin Mausin Ali. Some of the gangsters procured fake passports from Nepal too. Babloo Srivastava obtained one from Nepal with the help of Nepal chief of D-company, Mirza Dilshad Beg, who was later gunned down by a Rajan gang member in Kathmandu. Mohammed Dossa, wanted in connection with the Mumbai blasts and based in Dubai now, also has a Nepalese passport. The Government of India has taken up the matter with Nepal authority but the passport is yet to be revoked. In Nepal, a citizenship certificate from any Chief District Officer is required to obtain a passport. The price for a forged passport in Nepal is 10,000 Nepali rupees and usually takes two weeks to be prepared. Making a fake passport in America is also not difficult, though it is quite expensive. Before the attack on the World Trade Centre, the cost for making fake passports ranged from $2,000 to $5,000, but now it has shot up to dollars 10 to 20 thousand. An Intelligence officer states, 'We are not the only country where fake passports are issued. The only thing is that you will get it at the cheapest price in India.' In the Abu Salem Fake passport case, four cops were suspended for criminally conspiring to issue clearance certificates facilitating the delivery of passports, believed to have been used by Abu, his wife Monica Bedi and wife Sabina. The passports were issued from Bhopal. What was even more baffling to investigation agencies was how Abu and the two women managed to obtain a ration card from Municipal Corporation, which was used to establish proof of residence. The authorities suspended three junior officers and a departmental inquiry was ordered against Dinesh Bais, station in-charge of Parvalia. However, these were not the only major cases in Bhopal. Salim Haddi, a Dawood henchman was issued a fake passport from Bhopal in 1998. Brothers of Tiger Memon and infamous narco don Philoo Khana had also got their passports from Bhopal in 1994. Abu Salem spread his tentacles to Kurnool also and obtained passports for self and two women from there. The Kurnool police cleared files for three passports in April, 2001, which were later used for Abu Salem, Monica Bedi and one Sabina Azmi. A passport in the name of Ramil Kamil Malik with the address of 17/107, RT Street, Kurnool town, with birth year of 1970, was used by Abu Salem. Sana Malik Kamal, with birth year of 1974 and address of 10/102 B, Babu Gounda Street, Kurnool Town, was used by Monica and Neha Asif Jafri, with birth year of 1975 and address of 11/90, Osmania College Road, Kurnool Town, was used by Sabina Azmi.
Indian Airlines flight IC 814 from Kathmandu to New Delhi was hijacked with 179 passengers and 11 crew members on board on December 24, 1999, and the hijackers demanded the release of Maulana Masood Azhar, Chief of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, who was in a jail at Jammu, against safe release of passengers. 10 accused in the case were charge sheeted in the Designated Court at Patiala on 21st June, 2000. These included Ibrahim Athar @ Chief, Sunny Ahmed Qazi @ Burger, Shahid Sayeed Akhtar @ Doctor, Zahoor Ibrahim Mistry @ Bhola, Shakir @ R.G. Verma @ Shankar, Abdul Rauf -brother of Maulana Massod Azhar, Yusuf Azhar-brother-in-law of Maulana Masood Azhar (all Pak nationals) and 3 accused Abdul Latif, Yusuf Nepali and Dilip Kumar Bhujel of Kalimpong. This team of hijackers had obtained fake passports from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal between July to September 1999.
In the case of ammunition depot fires in the last two years police arrested two Pakistanis who revealed the possibility that fires might not be accidental. They were arrested for plotting to blast a field ammunition depot in Jodhpur. On December 12, 2002 Zeesham Alam (s/o Mohammed Alam Pathan, resident of Gali no 2, Mohalla Maneer Park, DC Road, Gujrawalan, Pakistan) and Naseer aka Sameer (s/o Ahmed Ali aka Mohammed Abdullah, resident of house no. 125, Gali No 11, Chack Kauria Wali, Multan, Pakistan) were arrested in Jodhpur and Jaipur. Police recovered an Indian passport (No. B-5110510, issued on May 3, 2001 in New Delhi) in the name of Mohammed Alam and another Indian passport (no. B-5006332, dated August 11, 2000 issued from New Delhi) from Naseer. He had undergone three-months training for espionage in the Corps of Defence, Karachi and had been provided with a Bangladeshi passport at the end. Mursolen helped Zeesham Alam get an Indian passport in the name of Mohammed Alam. Police had busted a racket of forged passports, involving unauthorised agents from Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai with the arrest of a person from south Mumbai. The agencies seized several fake passports and passport making kit related to this racket from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (Sahar Airport). These included rubber stamps of Immigration Department, External Affairs Ministry, Consulates of different countries, Passport Offices, Protector of Immigrant office, 76 tampered passports and five forged passports, visa stickers, photo pages of passports, visas of various countries, and few other instruments. Police also recovered monogram of Passport Authority of India, 910 forged pages identical to the first page of Indian passport, and illegally procured visas of USA, UK, Canada and other countries. Interrogation of the arrested persons revealed that their services had been used by many unauthorised agents to send number of gangsters and people abroad on fake visas and forged passports. PASSPORTS OWNED BY DAWOOD IBRAHIM K-650098 30.07.75 Mumbai M-110522 13.11.78 Mumbai P-537849 30.07.79 Mumbai R-841697 26.11.81 Mumbai V-57865 03.01.83 Mumbai A-333602 04.06.85 Mumbai A-501801 26.07.85 Mumbai F-823692 02.09.89 Mumbai G-866537 12.08.91 Rawalpindi …………………..……………………..…………………..………………… |
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